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Keck, Charles S. – Teacher Development, 2015
This article derives from a case study involving in-depth interviews of 20 Mexican and Spanish teachers. Testimonies are analysed from teachers engaged in a training programme for "radical reflexivity" known as Seekers After Truth (SAT). This training is informed by theory and practices from the psychotherapeutic and spiritual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Interviews, Faculty Development
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Hockett, Eloise – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2018
This qualitative case study examined the cultural learning insights of four educators during and after an immersion experience in Kenya. During this experience the participants delivered professional development sessions to teachers in two rural Kenyan schools, and stayed with Kenyan families. Mezirow's transformational learning theory,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Undergraduate Students
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Johnson, Laurel; Roitman, Sonia; Morgan, Ann; MacLeod, Jason – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Academic writing groups aim to improve the quality and/or the rate of academic publications. In this article, the authors reflect on a writing group with academic and non-academic members that evolved over two years to uphold a deeper and arguably spiritual purpose. The group commenced with the aim of increasing its members' publication rates, but…
Descriptors: Productivity, Academic Discourse, Communities of Practice, Faculty Publishing
Fuller, Carrie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
While the academic and social success of two-way immersion programs in the public school sector is widely documented, little research has been conducted on how US Catholic school leaders have managed this whole school reform. Through an exploratory case study, the motivations and perceptions of 28 Catholic school administrators and change…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Catholic Schools, Change Agents, Administrator Attitudes
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Kemmis, Stephen; Mutton, Rebecca – Environmental Education Research, 2012
This paper reports some findings from an investigation of educational practice in ten (formal and informal) education for sustainability (EfS) initiatives, to characterise exemplary practice in school and community education for sustainability, considered crucial to Australia's future. The study focused on rural/regional Australia, specifically…
Descriptors: Community Education, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development